Janet Adamy, WSJ Washington bureau deputy chief, authored piece
Seven up-and-coming congressional candidates told The Wall Street Journal that Congress has ceded too much power to the executive branch, that members prioritize their own self-interests over those of the American public, and that the office is being abused in some instances. The candidates sat down with the paper ahead of the midterm elections and agreed that things need to change on Capitol Hill, according to a WSJ report published Monday.
The interviews form the second installment in a WSJ series presenting the candidates’ proposals for fixing Congress.
According to the WSJ, the candidates leveled three areas of criticism at Congress: that Congress cedes too much power to the executive branch; that members prioritize their own self-interests over those of the American public; and that the office is being abused in some instances.
Janet Adamy, the deputy coverage chief in The Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau, authored the piece. Adamy helps run coverage of politics, policy, national security, and the U.S. justice and judiciary system at the paper. She previously served as politics enterprise editor, led the paper’s coverage of health policy, and wrote about the economic and social implications of demographic change. Adamy was part of a team that won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for the “Medicare Unmasked” series. Before that, she was a corporate beat reporter in Chicago covering restaurants and the food industry and worked at newspapers in Detroit, Portland, Ore., and the San Francisco Bay Area. She has taught demographic reporting in the graduate program of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and worked as an English teacher in Northern Italy. Adamy holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Michigan, where she was selected to deliver her class commencement speech.